B17 Crash over Kingston, AZ.

[avionix]

Pretty incredible prices there - a P38 for $1250..  Any ideas how much that would be in the today's currency?

Posted a thread about a pony for sale right now.  They want $2.45 million for it.  That should give a rough idea.

[Airscrew]

Pretty incredible prices there - a P38 for $1250..  Any ideas how much that would be in the today's currency?

well if you consider that you could buy a new Chevy Deluxe between $1500 and $1800 in the late 40's early 50's; so if you can buy a new chevy today between $18000 and $25000 then I would guess that P38 would cost you about $15000 to $16000 today

[APDrone]

well if you consider that you could buy a new Chevy Deluxe between $1500 and $1800 in the late 40's early 50's; so if you can buy a new chevy today between $18000 and $25000 then I would guess that P38 would cost you about $15000 to $16000 today

Argh.. I don't have my resources in front of me, but I believe I saw that the P38 was $60,000 new.  A current pricetag of millions would be appropriate.

<edit>  Wiki says $97,000 in 1944.

[LTARogue]

Thanks for all the help guys and it does appear that the Nov 3rd, 1944 crash is the one as there was nothing similar. Very sad in that there were 15 men lost that day but many of the gunnery students were on their last flight before graduation. It was interesting to note that the P39 pilot was actually a B17 pilot that was filling in and running the students through their drills. <S> all and thanks again.

LTARogue

[John Curnutte]

 Well Kingman was a huge base as it had lots of room to play around in training and teaching . There are fields all over that tri state area ( Ca. , Az , Nv. )
My son tells me that there are plaques all over from many different things that happened there . Also pieces of planes are scattered across the countryside near Kingman , Az . from the many accidents that had occurred . interesting post Rogue , lots of info here .
                                                        Nutte

[LTARogue]

There appears to be a plaque at the Kingman AAF Museum commemorating the crash and the 15 men who died that day. The entire crash was also caught on film by another B17 crew and I would love to see that but would hate to see it as well knowing that all those men were doomed and that one of them was my Grandfather.

LTARogue